posted April 24, 2006

What Really Matters (Physical Life)

• Ready or not, some day it will come to an end.
• There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
• All things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.
• Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
• It will not matter you owned or what you owed.
• Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear.
• So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to-do lists will expire.
• The wins, the losses that once seemed important will fade away.
• It won't matter where you came from or what sided of the track you lived on in the end.
• It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.
• Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant

Point. In the end what REALLY counts?

What Really Matters to God (Spiritual Life)

• Not what you get out of life, but what you give to others.
• Not our big successes but our small successes in our spiritual life.
• Did failure cause us to stumble spiritually or did we go to God?
• Did our acts of kindness, encouragement, integrity cause others to follow our example?
• In the end will those who loved be able to say "there is a person who loved God above all that there is in life."
• Did we do our best in this short life to develop the character of God in our lifetime through Bible study, prayer on a daily basis?
• Will people around us see us acting out the principles of the Bible because of our relationship with Him and His word?
• Will I have done my best to all areas of my life, spiritually and physically?
• How much did I focus on eternal life in God's Kingdom in my life?

What we we are in this physical life matters to God, but more importantly in what we become spiritually with His His help.

Point: Be prepared spiritually in the event our lives are cut short and we miss our chance to be in God' future kingdom.

- courtesy of Jan Wenberg of the  Little Falls, MN United Church of God.